Review of Venom (2018) by Matt A — 11 Jan 2019

While not generally being a superhero movie fan, Tom Hardy combined with "anti-hero" had my interested enough to pick this up. Being a huge Tom Hardy fan, it was puzzling why they would choose to cast him for a superhero role.

After watching however, it became clear. While clearly limited by the writing which is clearly limited to the source material and the formulaic narrative of all superhero movies - Hardy brings to life what really is a surprisingly complex role.

Couple that with fluid and visceral special effects, enough standard deviations from the normal marvel linear story (which I can't get into without spoiling, but there's some interesting concepts at work) and just enough well timed humor make this a pleasant surprise and an overall good movie if you can get yourself past the shortcomings which as I stated feel more genre-specific then Venom specific.